Reason as a living process — logic, metaphysics, epistemology and meaning in everyday life.
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Sleep isn’t passive—it’s nightly maintenance. Slow-wave and REM rebuild muscle and connective tissue, balance hormones, and flush daytime metabolic waste via the glymphatic system to restore neurotransmission. The payoff: sharper cognition, steadier mood, healthier metabolism, heart, and immunity.
NuScale’s small modular reactors promise more than clean, modular power on the ground—they hint at a future of airborne carriers the size of stadiums, loitering in the skies for months at a time. This post explores how SMR technology could unshackle endurance, transforming not only energy but the architecture of power itself.
“Letting go” has become the modern mantra. Yet if we relinquish all we desire, what remains to root a life? This piece argues for open-handed love—attachment, protection, loyalty—and the chosen weight of responsibility: showing up for one another, guiding and growing together. Is this not what life is about?
Kindness is not weakness or naïveté. It is strength forged through suffering, the power to harm restrained, the beauty of choice made again and again. Unlike niceness, which avoids conflict, kindness endures it—and transforms it.
Investing and trading aren’t opposites so much as different relationships to time. This guide clarifies frames—from scalping to position trading—and argues that most edge is born in ranges, not headlines. Choose your horizon, respect its rules, and let discipline—not drift—set your course.
Back when BitMEX paid maker rebates, I turned ~$30 into ~$2,000 by posting passive liquidity and guarding inventory. This post breaks down the rebate math, spread capture, and kill-switches—and shows how that small-edge discipline connects to “Trading Big Bags,” where structure, not bravado, determines survival.
Capital size should dictate strategy. What works for a $1,000 trader becomes reckless at $10M. The recent $17M loss on Hyperliquid shows how fragile structures — high leverage, linear contracts, and concentration — turn conviction into catastrophe. This essay breaks down why efficiency, not ego, defines survivability, and how inverse contracts, venue distribution, and leverage discipline transform outcomes.
Epigenetics shows that we inherit more than DNA—we carry the echoes of our ancestors’ trauma, hunger, and resilience written into our biology. These epigenetic marks, passed across two to three generations, shape health, weight, stress, and even how we respond to the world. Yet awareness gives us agency: by confronting what we carry, we can choose healing and create a legacy of renewal for those who come after us.
If time is not a river or a dimension but only the distance between events, what then becomes of us? Is a life measured by years, or by the density of change it contains? This essay traces the haunting question of time—not to answer it, but to wander through its puzzles: the minus sign in the line element, the ghost of dt, antimatter’s supposed reversal, and the possibility of a physics without clocks. Time appears less as something we move through and more as something we ourselves measure—a spacing of events that refuses ever to be final.
Evil does not overwhelm the world, yet a single act of cruelty can feel larger than life—like a stain on a white shirt. Goodness is the quiet backdrop of daily life, but it gains meaning only when it resists. This essay explores the dichotomy of good and evil, the silence of the good, and the weight of responsibility that makes moral choice luminous.
